I was invited to the Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning (SOCML) and attended at the end of November 2017. As per the name, the conference did not have a preset schedule but the participants themselves would put together the agenda on …
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Appeared on iAfrikan[Link] With the release of a slice of the #GuptaLeaks e-mail correspondence by parliament, there is now an opportunity to do some data mining. For this article we will focus on looking at the network of e-mails between …
So, I got a speeding ticket notification via my bank. When I investigated it I found out it was in Ekurhuleni. I checked the rest of the details of the ticket. On the date I had not driven in the …
As part of the Deep Learning Indaba, we have gotten a dataset of the accepted papers from NIPS 2006 - 2016 and countries of corresponding authors. We wanted to understand the scale of the non-participation of countries/regions as well as …
Earlier in the 2017 I attended the UN Data Forum. Outside some oddities out of some of the things discussed at that conference (especially on Data and power dynamics, you can read a paper we wrote in response -> A critical …